Wednesday, October 18th. Day 291 of 2023
It’s Chocolate Cupcake Day
Happy No Beard Day ! Shave it or trim it
1867: The United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
1873: The first rules for intercollegiate football were drawn up by representatives from Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities
1922: The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded
1954: Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio is ready to marketed
1969: Major League Baseball granted permission for the A’s to move to Oakland. New franchises were awarded to Kansas City (Royals) and Seattle (Pilots for 1 season then to Milwaukee as the Brewers)
1979: The Federal Communications Commission begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations. Dishes here, dishes there, dishes everywhere
2019: NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station
In the News: David Moose named new Alexander County Consolidated Human Services Director…Open Broadband Project has expanded to over 400 county homes and businesses…Taylorsville man has probation revoked and ordered to jail…Hiddenite man jailed on felony drug charge in Iredell County…Taylorsville woman arrested after missing two court dates…
Weather: Sunny with a high near 70
East Alexander Falcons
Happy Birthday: Mike Ditka, Pam Dawber, Martina Navratilova, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Wynton Marsalis, Rachel Nichols, Lindsey Vonn, Zac Efron, Brittner Griner
Long overdue (really long overdue) book returned to library https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/10/17/Larchmont-Public-Library-overdue-book-90-years/3891697574057/
Word of the Day: Artificial Intelligence [ ahr-tuh-fish-uhl in-tel-i-juhns ] The capacity of a computer, robot, or other programmed mechanical device to perform operations and tasks analogous to learning and decision making in humans, such as speech recognition or question answering. A computer, robot, or other programmed mechanical device having this humanlike capacity. Term was first recorded in the late 1950’s.
Quote of the Day: “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before”…Mae West